The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-04
HOUSE.

Venor (Ohiol called up the vetoed bill
! granting a pension to Sally Ann Brad
ley The House refused to pass.the bill
lover the veto-yeas 123, nays 122, not
the Constitutional two-thirds in the
affirmative. -.r-r. 81. 4, .!55
Morrow California; moved to suspend
the rules and pass the Senate bill ap-
propriating $3.50 900 for the purchase of
q site for postoffice at San Francisco.
Cox North Carolina) moved to
suspend the rules and pass the bill re-
pealing the tenure of Office act. The
motion was agreed to and the bill
passed, yeas .172, nays 81. .ar
The bill passed, 147 to 81, accepting
certain lands near Chicago for military
purposes. r,I5 -,rt. ...-.,-..,.7
The House then took recess until s
O'Clock. . ..-.s... .-
A r EVENING SESSION.
The Senate amendments to the legis-
Iative appropriation bill were non-con-
Cured in. t... ..U..
Mr.. Burns (Missouri), under instruc-
tions from the committee on appro-
priations, moved. to suspend the rules
and pass an urgent deficiency bill. C'rhe
bill appropriates for DEFICIENCIES in the
postoffice department S493 600; in the
Treasury Department for printing 81
and 50 silver certificates and United
States legal tender notes $270, eO0); in
the Department of Justice; $685., 900,
and for the payment of certified claims
1884, 255. -. -..-.-...s 5....t ...a
Mr.. McComas (Maryland) objected to
the presentation of the bill as being
hasty, ill-adVised and panic-strieken, !
and protested against the irregularit es
OF the proceeding. ..f-t go,
Mr.. Randall suggested that nobody.
but the gentleman from Maryland was
panic-stricken. The majority was quite
cool and determined. The bill was pre-
scented as a matter of caution, not as
matter of necessity. The bill was then
passed. s4..
Mr.. Henderson Qowa) moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Senate bill
granting pension of $1,000 year to
Mary S. Logan, widow OF John A.
Logan. .e4s,.!-
Henderson IIlinois) addressed the
House in support of the Mrs. Logan
bill up. he said, in obedience to
the Overwhelming sentiment of the
country. There were precedents for
this bill. Similar pensions had been
granted the widows of Admiral Farra-
gut and Generals Thomas and Hancock.
General Logan, when he died, died rich
in everything except in property.
Tarsney (Michigan) asked the gentle
man, when he talked about the admirals
and generals who had done disting-
ulshed services in the wars of the Union,
to bear the mind that it was not the
generals alone who won victorious;
there were in the ranks thousands and
tens of thousands of humble, noble SOL
diers, the graves of many of whom were
to-day unmarked beyond the Potomac
River, who had never been heard OF in
the halls of Congress asking for PEN
sion. He came from Michigan, of
Democratic family that had furnished
i've brothers to the Federal service.
None of them were here asking Congress
for pension for valiant services in be-
half of the preservation of the Union.
He came from family, one of
whom lay dead somewhere across
the Potomac. His record on the
books of the War Department
read. Killed in the wilderness" an
other had spent seventeen months
within the confines OF a Confederate
prison. Two others bore the scars of
honorable conflict. He protested in
the name OF his country against voting
a pension TO the family of dlstin-
guished statesmau-not soldier, when
the family of the men who barred
their breasts to the Confederate bullets, |
and moved shoulder TO shoulder in
the ranks of the privates, was forgotten. 4
The gentleman had referred to Farra-
gut. Thomas and Hancock. Did the
gentleman forget that those dis
tinguished men were still serving as
officers at the time OF their death?
General Logan was not in service at the |
time of his death; and the House was |
asked to force a civil pension list upon |
the American people. For his part, /!
and in behalf of the great common
wealth of Michigan, he protested /
against it. -
Mr.. sAIIenl { Mississippi, referring to !
the intim that the ex-Con1eder- !
at would vote against the bill on ac-
connt of the ilI-will they bore against |
those who had been victorious over
them. declared that be represented the
sentiment of every Confederate when
he said that there was not lingering in
the south one single scintilla OF haired
or prejudice or Ill will against any man
because he was opposed to 1t in that
unfortunate conflict.
lyon forgive us do your" queried Mr..
Johnston (Indianal amid laughter.